We performed a comparison between Microsoft BI and MicroStrategy based on our users’ reviews in five categories. After reading all of the collected data, you can find our conclusion below.
Comparison Results: Users gave Microsoft BI higher ratings. Compared to MicroStrategy, Microsoft BI has slightly better features, and users were happy with the ROI.
"Users already using Excel can generate new reports and dashboards within minutes."
"The visuals are great and make everything look very professional. We can change the look and feel or manipulate the data according to our requirements. It's extremely flexible."
"One of the most valuable aspects of this tool is its ease of use and the ability to easily share information with others."
"Key features are its dashboard functionality and ease of integration with various data sources."
"We like the drag and drop interactability visualization. We really like that. It's user-friendly."
"Other people can access data much more easily than before. Its usability is the main advantage, people in the company are using it."
"Ease of development and maintenance."
"Previously we used Excel, which took a long time - two or three weeks - to bring the data into a uniform format, whereas BI can do the same job in a day."
"It has had a direct impact on bottomline improvements."
"It is easy to use and visually very appealing. One thing that sets it apart is that it has got a great ETL tool. As compared to some of the other solutions, it is much easier to process data from other applications in MicroStrategy. That's why we prefer using it."
"We prefer having our analytics capabilities in a single platform, which MicroStrategy's offers."
"Reports are very easy to create. It takes a very short amount of time to build a report, which is very useful."
"This solution has allowed us to become a top-class competitor among other consulting companies."
"It keeps BI in the hands of everyone, rather than a developer or an analyst."
"The technical support of MicroStrategy can be helpful through implementation."
"Technical support is knowledgeable. The right person gets back to us whenever we email them."
"I'm missing collaborations functionality to operate or to work connected with multiple people on a data source or on virtualization. There should be more collaborations functions, such as in Confluence. We haven't explored the solution sufficiently in this area, but at this time it doesn't look sufficient."
"Anything they can do to improve enterprise collaboration is going to help people get set up and utilize the solution."
"There are some connector-related issues in their MSBA solution."
"It seems that the solution could use more analytics to help users draw more contextual business insights. Right now, you need other solutions for that."
"I would like to be able to use more predicting data science features without having to use R."
"Our expectation is putting BI to work in real-time data collection systems in the maritime environment."
"It should be more scalable for an enterprise-level implementation. When you deploy large data sets, the response has to be faster in Power BI. This is one thing that needs to be improved in it."
"Microsoft BI lacks some of the scheme features. It would be beneficial if there were a way to show how we move values in a different way."
"The solution's licensing could be improved because its cost is heavy on the pockets."
"The solution's reports are not very flexible."
"The solution has a very non-logical user usage part. It has a library mode where users can access all the data, reports, and dashboards, but they also can be accessed from a platform. They have to log into the platform. The user experience is confusing for the users. MicroStrategy needs to define which one they will use. Some functionality isn’t available in library mode but is available in the portal. There should be Office integration. For example, if I do a presentation, then I should be able to add a chart to my presentation."
"I would try to make it a little more basic, user-friendly. In terms of the UX, it's a bit sluggish there."
"Data preparation-wise, it was not so straightforward with respect to getting different sources. Preparing or transforming the data inside and then bringing it onto the dashboard was a bit difficult, and the experience could have been better."
"They need to do a better job In its ability to allow end users to produce their own reports, metrics, and self-service business intelligence."
"I would like to see the enterprise version available in a demo or as a trial version."
"The areas that have room for improvement in MicroStrategy are mainly related to building additional tools. Specifically, the embedding process has been a bit of a struggle."
Microsoft Power BI is ranked 1st in BI (Business Intelligence) Tools with 297 reviews while MicroStrategy is ranked 8th in BI (Business Intelligence) Tools with 155 reviews. Microsoft Power BI is rated 8.0, while MicroStrategy is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of Microsoft Power BI writes "A complete ecosystem with an builtin ETL tool, good integrations with python and R, and support of DAX and Power Query (M languages)". On the other hand, the top reviewer of MicroStrategy writes "A robust solution for powerful data analytics". Microsoft Power BI is most compared with Tableau, Amazon QuickSight, KNIME, Domo and SAS Visual Analytics, whereas MicroStrategy is most compared with Tableau, IBM Cognos, SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence Platform, Qlik Sense and Oracle OBIEE. See our MicroStrategy vs. Microsoft Power BI report.
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